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Become a Volunteer.

All volunteers need to take the Rapid Responder training before joining any team.

Get trained to be a

Rapid Responder
no shifts, respond as able, increase daily awareness
Hotline operator
being bilingual is a plus but not required; urgent need for Spanish and Chinese speakers
Community patrol team member in partnership with Peoples Brigade.
For more information, email peoplesdefensefront@protonmail.com
Workplace canvassing team member
outreach with Know Your Rights signs and more
Moshannon Accompaniment team member

Upcoming Rapid Responder Trainings:

Thursday, December 4 at 5:30 PM in-person training
Thursday, December 18 at 8 PM virtual training

When you register for a training (1-hour, once), you will receive information about location.

We will send out a reminder a week and a day before, if you have not received confirmation, please check your spam folder and email us.

Donate

to help us do this work
to support detained immigrants and their families:

Donations were distributed to 5 families and the SCASD student in September. These GoFundMe pages remain open because their legal fights are ongoing.

More Ways to Help:

Call the Governor’s office in support of the Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition’s list of demands. Choose 1-3 to highlight yourself. Get 2 friends to do the same (and ask them if they want to get trained with CCRRN!). The full list of demands and phone, text, email, postcard contact info is all on a single page here.

Statewide petition for institutions and organizations.

Statewide petition for individuals.

Share resources

This fact sheet from the National Immigrant Justice Center addresses facts relevant to the national conversation about health care and SNAP brought on by the federal stalemate and shutdown in October. Many lawfully-present immigrant groups lost access to health funding their taxes help pay for. Others (including trafficking survivors) lost access to SNAP as well. Learn more here.

Talk about what is happening.

This State College article gives a lot of specifics about the August raids in Centre County. It is important to know that these were not the first incidents of harassment nor disappearance in this area this year. We have regular confirmation that intrusive, active ICE surveillance is ongoing in our area.

In the Moshannon Detention Center:

The report linked in this news release from the Temple University Law School details specifics about the “Moshannon Valley Processing Center” which is the for-profit detention center for the disappeared and seized.
Detainee sexual assault by prison chaplain (pp.13-18 of the full complaint, linked in the article, indicate this is a pattern, and that female staff also knew that Melhorn was not safe for women to be around).
Detainee suicide after days of isolation and inadequate interpretation.

Speak to your elected officials about how these actions harm you. Some possible asks are included in the article above as well as the Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition Statewide Campaign. Your faith denomination or civic group may also have letters you can sign or use as inspiration for your own letter or call to your elected officials.

Call the Governor’s office.

Shut down Moshannon. If you know people in Clearfield County, it is important to know that the GEO Group’s current contract on the ICE detention center just outside Philipsburg depends on the Clearfield Commissioners’ votes. The commissioners must vote again in November 2026. Learn more from these pages, consider canvassing to find out what Clearfield County residents would LIKE in their backyard (healthcare, for example?), and help your Clearfield County contacts reach out to their Commissioners. Sexual assault by prison chaplain (pp.13-18 of the complaint indicate this is a pattern, and that female staff also knew). Suicide after days of isolation and inadequate interpretation.

Follow the money

Find out whether your institutions’ investment practices include a screen to exclude for-profit prisons or detention centers. If they do, thank them. If they do not, start asking for change, and organize others to do so, too.

Bank your values. Citizen’s Bank is one of the few banks that still finances for both Core Civic, and for GEO Group, for-profit, publicly traded prison companies. GEO Group profits from imprisoning immigrants in the Moshannon Valley Processing Center (the biggest immigrant detention center in the Northeast, right nextdoor to Philipsburg). Groups are organizing to get them to stop. Credit Unions are a great choice.

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